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Gaia Ashram Teacher Internship

  • Date: 4 June – 1 October 2017
  • Language:
      English
  • Location: Thailand

Are you a Permaculturalist? Ecovillage Designer? Deep Ecologist? Builder? Gardener? Natural product maker? Healer? Herbalist? Nutritionist? Shaman? Dancer? Artist? Yogi & Yogini? Are you looking for a community to live to practice your knowledge and skills, a space to share your knowledge and skills with others, a place to use your knowledge and skills to create positive impact on earth? Then, you might be interested in this program! What is Gaia Ashram Teacher Internship … Read more

Gaia Ashram Internship

  • Date: 2 – 30 July 2017
  • Language:
      English
  • Location: Thailand

The Gaia Ashram Internship is a one month program on Ecovillage Design, Permaculture and Deep Ecology. The internship will be a holistic participatory learning experience & process. Interns will experience being part of the Gaia Ashram Community and we will live together for one month at– Gaia Ashram-. At Gaia Ashram we belief in holistic learning that balances the head, hands & heart. Gaia Ashram encourages participatory learning & values the power of community in holding the … Read more

Rite of Power

  • Date: 12 – 18 March 2017
  • Languages:
      EnglishGermanSpanish
  • Location: Valle de Sensaciones

The Rite of Power is a strong healing process and self-discovery, led by Sun Dragon and his partner Singing Hummingbird woman. The shamanic teacher Sun Dragon has developed it from American and African shamanic teachings for people of Western culture. The ceremonies and shamanic technics will help you to experience the union with yourself and GAIA, the spirit of the earth. You may receive new orientation, more clarity and vitality. With: Inipis (Sweat lodges) Breathwork Trance … Read more

Adv Permaculture Course in Teaching

  • Language:
      English
  • Location: Undefined

In this dynamic and interactive course, you will learn significant teaching techniques to communicate Permaculture principles and strategies in a wide variety of settings. This Teacher Training unfolds as a design methodology and advocates the Permaculture Design Course Curriculum. Our goal is to encourage and inspire your unique strengths and talents by demonstrating diverse teaching modalities such as lecture, facilitating class discussions, storytelling, utilizing visual aids and hands-on … Read more

Editorial, Newsletter January 2017 GEN Newsletter January 2017, Editorial

Dear friends of ecovillages, The past year has seen global developments that could not have been foreseen even just one year ago. Who would have thought that the majority of people in Great Britain would have voted to leave the European Community, for example; or that Donald Trump would have a chance to become President of the United States? However, despite the depressing news, we are also witnessing strong movements gaining momentum globally. One of those is the ecovillage movement. With … Read more

GEN International the Global aspect of GEN - from caterpillar to butterfly!

Since its 20th birthday party, celebrated at the GEN+20 Summit in Findhorn in July 2015, GEN has gone through a deep process of transformation and seems to have arrived on a next level of its evolution. Kosha Anja Joubert, the Executive Director of GEN, was asked how the year unfolded for her. The spark for GEN´s new direction came from GEN´s core funder, the Danish GAIA Trust, who - through the founders, Hildur and Ross Jackson - decided that GEN had so much promise that it was worth … Read more

Improving on the Core Structure of GEN Africa

Sonita Mbah, Executive Secretary of GEN Africa, reports. From it's inception in 2012 until today, GEN Africa has been growing from strength to strength, maximizing its potential in meeting the needs of grassroot communities, improving on the core structure, and showing capacity to manage and build on challenges. More than 50 participants from over 23 countries including Europe and Africa, met at Ghana Permaculture Institute in Techiman, Ghana, from December 1-6, 2016, to reflect, evaluate … Read more

GEN Latin America A Year in Review from CASA

Jennifer Trujillo Obando from CASA, the GEN Network of Latin America, reports. CASA Latina, legally established in October this year in Colombia, is emerging as a pioneer  organization in Latin-America to implement Sociocracy as a dynamic form of governance within the context of conventional legal protocols. More than 100 sustainable settlements, grass roots communities and positive impact entrepreneurships came together in the CASA network to promote sustainable and regenerative styles … Read more

GENOA – From Deeper Levels of Insight

Trudy Juriansz shares about GEN Oceania and Asia.  Two of GENOA’s key objectives for 2016 were to develop more authentic and trusting exchanges, and organize activities and initiatives from deeper levels of insight. We were able to do this through convergence, community building and through being more mindful of how the budget is utilized. We focused on one sub-regional gathering in partnership with an ecovillage and networks in the region and also on network coordination and strategy … Read more

GEN North America Accomplishments in 2016

Cynthia Tina - GEN Trustee and GENNA International Coordinator reports. Collaboration continues to deepen among the partner organizations that comprise GENNA, which is currently GEN-US, the Fellowship for Intentional Community, and NextGEN North America. North America is a unique region in the fact that we have several organizations serving different aspects of the communities movement. Last year, these groups and individuals agreed to join forces as the GENNA Council, recognizing the … Read more